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mehguy138
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Why, instead of overtuning mob damage up and down, won't you implement different levels of difficulty? Call them easy, normal and hard. Easy - mobs have little hp and damage, reduced rewards; normal - average mob hp and damage, basic rewards; hard - increased mob hp and damage, increased rewards. Solo queuing would put you in the normal dungeons and skirmishes. Full parties would be able to choose the difficulty.
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and u can chose easy dungeons now, they are even 3man so you dont have to get a full party
3kid version and 5man version, simple
Err, I am pretty sure you are wrong on both counts.
The vast majority of the work is creating the dungeon and monster assets. Once that is done it would be relatively simple to set (for example) monster damage and HP at 50% on easy, 100% on normal and 150% on hard difficulties. Cryptic has mob/player scaling abilities so we know this can be done.
And I am sure there are much, much more efficient ways for botting than creating one that can run dungeons. If there is a huge amount of (AFAIK totally unjustified) paranoia about this possibility, they could simply let all the major rewards for easy dungeons be BtC or BtA. After all the whole point of easy difficulties is to allow new characters to gear up to face greater challenges.
Sounds reasonable but rewards should be the same for each difficulty level to allow players to gear up effectively. Those playing on 'hard' level will be doing so for the challenge because they consider that fun (that is their reward same as anyone else). If they want to gear up quickly and skip the challenge then they can choose to do that same as anyone else, the point is it's about freedom of choice. Equal rewards mean that players who want to can move up difficulty levels and join in on an equal footing.
maybe everybody should get everything for free ? hard content - good rewards, easy content - trash rewards, and thats before considering botting, where bots would just run easy content 24/7 and get rewards
Sure, because playing hard difficulty in a video game is what defines manhood!
Anyway, we don't need "hard" content for 2% of the players so they can feel like they are awesome or something. Especially if "hard" means everything just has more hp and deals more damage.
Make enemies smarter, make encounters consists of healers, damage dealers, etc. teach them to flank and dodge; that would be more challenging. What we have now is nothing like it.
Botting shouldn't decide content
Implementing differing rewards really would make for '3x more work', also if those playing at higher difficulties get better stuff the whining and crying about it being too easy would start up again more quickly.
and i dont need content for helmet wearing gaming population, but i dont try to get all of that content removed, so why do u try to get my part of content removed
because easy content is easily done by bots, and easy content giving good rewards would mean a bunch of bots farming dungeons for rewards
its a hobby, just like sailing, and like in sailing beginners go around a pond, while pros can brave storms in the ocean, same as with any other hobby sport, havent seen ppl trying to nerf the ocean and storms so beginners can sail there
The difference is that with this change, the game provides for both. Those who choose to 'brave storms in the ocean' are perfectly free to do so, those who don't are similarly free not to.
its only fair that higher difficulty offers higher rewards
Those who choose to 'brave storms in the ocean' are perfectly free to do so, those who don't are similarly free not to.
Nor have the pros buffed the pond to make it more challenging for everyone. I would think you of all people would love the idea of very wide difficulty settings, or scaling. You said "most people play the game poorly" thus if they set the game at a challenge level for the majority you will be under challenged.
After publicly apologizing for the state of mod 6 our new lead dev has put game difficulty on the top of his things to look at and adjust list. If many were happy with the challenge level before start there, with a difficuly level of about what it was on the easiest option, and go all the way up to something harder than it is now that can be a great challenge to the best players.
You get to keep your entire pool of interested players in the game, and all with difficulty they find fun.
its not like anybody is forcing them now, they can easily sit in their pond(3mans, sharandar, ToD etc.) or did cryptic hire gunmen to force ppl running t2's, i guess mine then got lost somewhere
Your drops wouldn't need to change much, if at all. You still get drops tiered by area with your dungeons giving the highest because they are listed as hard areas requiring a party. But our story line soloable content of the game could for the players enjoyment on BOTH ends of the spectrum have difficulty options, with the lower end rewarding less experience as the challenge is less
You do know all that bling can be removed?
Play naked and tell me how easy it is
there is normal and epic already, they could add legendary in mod 7 or 8 to give new drops, so they have this in game already
sharandar has same difficulty as spinward, i think the ppl crying about difficulty are doing it at lvl 60 or so, though if sharandar and dread is a problem i dont really care about difficulty of that content, for me its just some boring grind with 0 challenge already, its IWD, and, to lesser extent WoD i dont want to lose
This thread is about difficulty levels, you wouldn't lose any content, but others might gain it.
I just want this game to be enjoyable for everyone.
Why a difference in rewards?
Player A plays a character for fun and gets 5 seals
Player B plays a character for fun and gets 30 seals
makes no sense to me.
It also means that newer players who want to move on to higher difficulties (because they've geared up) will enter higher levels at a disadvantage (as well as having to wait longer/ grind more before doing so). Surely the goal should be to make it easier for them to move up levels and join in earlier (easier for players at high levels to form groups).
Oh..yeah...there's also the argument that players who want more of a challenge should receive less rewards in order to make it more challenging (besides everything's already too easy for them so they don't need the rewards anyway).
And yes, uber7eets, obviously the rewards would scale up so you can continue to get your uber733t drops and stuff.
This is a very simple solution, and I'm honestly surprised that it has not been implemented in the past.
"...I grab my wiener and charge!" - ironzerg79
unequip all gear enter dungeon everything dies from aura of radiance
and that would be like skyrims scaling, and that sucks